For Healthcare & Community Professionals
Additional support for the individuals, caregivers, and families you serve.
Families navigating serious illness are often trying to absorb medical information, make difficult decisions, coordinate care, support one another, and prepare for what may come next — all while continuing to live their everyday lives.
Calm Endings provides the additional time, education, coaching, and guidance families often need between appointments and throughout this journey.
My goal is simple: to complement the work you are already doing and help families feel more informed, prepared, and supported.
Meet Katrina
End-of-Life Coach • BScN • RN •
Founder of Calm Endings
I’m Katrina, an End-of-Life Coach with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, a Registered Nurse, and more than 14 years of experience across hospice, acute care, neurosurgery, care coordination, and other clinical settings.
Throughout my career, I have seen how much families are expected to understand and manage during serious illness — and how easily overwhelmed caregivers can become when they are trying to connect all the pieces.
That experience is what led me to create Calm Endings.
Today, I use my healthcare background to coach, educate, guide, and support individuals and families as they navigate serious illness, caregiving, end-of-life planning, and the final stages of life.
Through Calm Endings, I am not acting as the family's nurse or replacing their clinical team. I help families better understand the information they are receiving, prepare meaningful questions, organize what needs to happen next, communicate their wishes, and build the support system around them.
When Calm Endings May Help
You may have a patient, client, resident, caregiver, or family who needs more time and guidance than your role or appointment allows.
Calm Endings may be a helpful resource when someone:
- Feels overwhelmed following a serious or life-limiting diagnosis
- Does not fully understand what their healthcare team has explained
- Needs help preparing questions or conversations
- Has a caregiver carrying too much of the responsibility
- Is navigating changing care needs, palliative care, or hospice
- Needs help building and organizing a caregiving village
- Is struggling with family communication or difficult decisions
- Wants to clarify and communicate end-of-life wishes
- Needs help preparing children or other loved ones
- Wants support creating meaningful legacy projects or final wishes
- Feels frightened or unprepared for what may happen as illness progresses
Sometimes the family does not need another medical appointment.
They need someone who can sit with them, slow everything down, help them understand what they have heard, and help them determine what comes next.
That is where Calm Endings can help.
Working Alongside You — Not Instead of You
I deeply value the professionals already surrounding a family.
Calm Endings does not replace physicians, nurses, hospice or palliative care teams, social workers, therapists, attorneys, clergy, funeral professionals, or other members of the care team.
I do not diagnose, prescribe, provide skilled nursing care, or provide emergency or on-call medical care through Calm Endings.
Instead, I help families navigate the spaces between and around professional care.
That may mean helping someone understand medical terminology after an appointment, organize questions for the next visit, explore what additional support they may need, clarify their wishes, build a caregiving plan, or prepare for changing needs.
When appropriate, I encourage families to take those questions and decisions back to the healthcare and community professionals best equipped to address them.
Making a Referral
There are two simple ways to connect someone with Calm Endings.
Share Calm Endings With Them
You can provide the individual or caregiver with my information and invite them to schedule a complimentary 30-minute Guidance Call whenever they feel ready.
Make a Warm Introduction
Sometimes an overwhelmed caregiver does not need another item added to their to-do list.
With the individual or family's permission, you may introduce us directly. You can share their preferred contact information and a brief reason you believe additional support may be helpful, and I can reach out to introduce myself.
The family remains completely in control of whether they would like to continue.
Make a Referral
A referral does not obligate the individual or family to purchase services. Please do not send medical records or detailed protected health information through the general referral form.
What Happens After the Referral?
I begin by listening.
Every new family is offered a complimentary 30-minute Guidance Call so I can understand what is happening, what feels most difficult, and what kind of support might actually help.
The next step may be:
- A focused Clarity & Action Session
- Ongoing one-on-one coaching
- Higher-touch Concierge Support
- A self-guided course or resource
- A referral back to their existing care team
- Or another professional or community resource altogether
Sometimes the most useful thing I can do is recognize that I am not the resource they need — but I may know who is.
That is an important part of Calm Endings.
It Takes a Village
End-of-life care is rarely the work of one person or one profession.
A strong support system may include physicians, hospice and palliative care teams, nurses, social workers, therapists, caregivers, clergy, end-of-life professionals, attorneys, funeral professionals, community organizations, family, and friends.
Part of my work with families is identifying what is missing from that village and helping them find the right people to fill those gaps.
That is why I want to build genuine relationships with the professionals doing this work.
I want to know excellent professionals because the families I support will need you, too.
Who I Want to Know
I welcome connections with professionals and organizations supporting people through serious illness, caregiving, end of life, death, and grief, including:
- Hospice and palliative care organizations
- Physicians, nurses, social workers, and case managers
- Home health and private caregiving services
- Therapists, counselors, and grief professionals
- Chaplains, clergy, spiritual-care providers, and faith communities
- End-of-life doulas and other death-care professionals
- Senior living and long-term-care communities
- Elder-law and estate-planning professionals
- Funeral homes, funeral directors, and memorial professionals
- Caregiver-support and community organizations
You do not need to have a family to refer before introducing yourself.
I want to understand what you do, who you serve, and when your services may be helpful so that when one of the families I support needs your expertise, I know where to send them.
Join the Calm Endings Resource Network
Coming Soon: A free directory of trusted support across the United States and Canada.
Calm Endings is virtual, which means the families who find me may live in communities across North America.
As Calm Endings grows, I am building a free Resource Directory organized by state and province to help families find appropriate support where they live.
The directory will grow to include resources such as:
- Hospice and palliative care
- Home health and private caregiving
- Therapy and grief support
- Social work and care management
- Spiritual and faith-based support
- End-of-life and death-care professionals
- Elder-law and estate-planning services
- Funeral and memorial care
- Senior living and long-term-care resources
- Local caregiver and community organizations
My vision is simple:
When an overwhelmed family tells me, “We need help finding someone,” I do not want my answer to be, “Try searching online.”
I want to be able to say, “Let’s see who is available in your community.”
As I build relationships with professionals across the United States and Canada, the directory will continue to grow state by state and province by province.
Professionals from any U.S. state or Canadian province are welcome to connect now.
Join the Resource Network
The Calm Endings Resource Directory is currently in development. Inclusion in the directory will be based on relevance, professional fit, and the needs of the families Calm Endings serves.
Let’s Get to Know Each Other
You do not need to wait until you have someone to refer.
If you would like to learn more about Calm Endings, understand the families I support, tell me about the work you do, explore a community partnership, or become part of the developing Resource Network, I would genuinely love to connect.
I offer a complimentary 30-minute Professional Connection Call so we can learn about one another's work and explore how we may better support individuals and families navigating this chapter of life.
Because none of us can provide everything a family needs.
But when the right people know one another, we can build a much stronger village around them.
